Trump administration to roll back fuel efficiency requirementsIn comments to the Environmental Protection Agency, coalition advocates argue that the cuts outlined in Trump administration’s so-called Safe and Affordable Fuel Efficient rule, pose a threat to public safety by weakening Clean Air standards and driving up costs for consumers—harming low-income households the most with higher fuel costs, while driving up asthma rates and premature deaths.

3M seniors could lose critical benefits if Benchmark Cap remains in Medicare AdvantageThree million American seniors are at risk of being denied critically important benefits like care coordination, vision, dental, hearing, and wellness programs if Congress allows the benchmark cap to stay in place. In a letter to Congress, coalition advocates supported the bipartisan Improving Seniors Access to Quality Benefits Act (HR 4952), which aims to lift the benchmark cap, thus giving beneficiaries higher-quality care.

Modernizing Medicare education tools empowers seniorsCoalition advocates urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue its efforts to improve and enhance the information and decision-making tools available to Medicare beneficiaries, in order to better enable seniors to make informed decisions and become active choosers in their health coverage.

Congress to gut key provision of Americans with Disabilities ActThe Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is a landmark piece of bipartisan legislation that affirms and protects the civil rights of disabled people. A new bill, The ADA Education and Reform Act (H.R. 620), introduced by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), would make it harder for people with disabilities to hold businesses accountable for inaccessibility. The proposed legislation was recently adopted in the House Judiciary Committee and specifically takes on a section of the ADA that gives disabled people the right to sue public businesses (including restaurants, hotels, and movie theaters) that don’t comply with the ADA’s accessibility requirements.

Do not let government agencies weaken consumer protectionsAdvocates joined together in urging Congress to oppose H.R. 469 the “Delaying Public Protections Act," which moves to end consent decrees and settlements that force federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency to comply with the law and protect public health and clean air and water. The directive is aimed at limiting people, communities, and organizations from taking the government agencies to court when they're not complying with the law or fail to enact or enforce regulations on the books.

To reign in prescription costs, FDA should focus on drug manufacturers’ major abusesIn a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), advocates called on Commissioner Gottlieb to end regulatory abuses by brand-name companies that block access to generic drugs. Brand name drug companies twist the FDA's rules to delay or inhibit consumer access to generic drugs, which gives the companies the power to charge unreasonable prices, and leads to greater healthcare costs.

Enough with the sneaky and harmful policy ridersAppropriations bills continue to be misused to undermine essential consumer and environmental safeguards through poisonous policy riders. Enough is enough! Advocates are asking Congress to oppose any FY 2018 bills that contain controversial riders regarding unpopular and dangerous initiatives that would otherwise never pass on their own.

Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) would hurt consumersAdvocates penned a letter to the Senate urging legislators to oppose the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) — which should be called the “Regulatory Paralysis Act.” This bill aims to cripple the process for issuing and enforcing regulations that ensure Americans have clean air and water, healthy food and consumer products, fair wages, safe workplaces and many key financial protections.